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Wondrium Pilots: Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York

Get to know Edith Wharton and the New York of her time, where everything glittered, but all was certainly not gold.
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Overview

Join Dr. Arielle Zibrak, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, to take a deep dive into who Edith Wharton was and how she came to be such a popular and well-regarded novelist. You’ll see the New York of Wharton’s time: a place of extremes between wealth and poverty, success and misfortune, hopeful optimism and bitter realities. You’ll gain an appreciation of the complex history of New York’s Gilded Age and Wharton’s relationship to its culture as both a participant and a critic.

About

Arielle Zibrak
Arielle Zibrak
Arielle Zibrak is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies and director of the English Honors Program at the University of Wyoming. She is also the founder and director of both the Bruce Richardson Lectures in the Humanities, a series that brings renowned scholars to campus and the community in Laramie and Casper, and the Dinner with Direction program for students and faculty on the Laramie campus.

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Wondrium Pilots: Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York
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Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York

01: Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age New York

Join Dr. Arielle Zibrak to take a deep dive into who Edith Wharton was and how she came to be such a popular and well-regarded novelist. Tour the scenes and sights of the New York City of Wharton’s time—which functions as a central character in one of her best-known works: The House of Mirth. Along the way, you’ll come to appreciate the complex history of New York’s Gilded Age and Wharton’s relationship to its culture as both a participant and a critic.

29 min

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